Berlin-Siemensstadt

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Siemensstadt
district of Berlin
Berlin Brandenburg Kladow Gatow Staaken Falkenhagener Feld Wilhelmstadt Spandau Haselhorst Siemensstadt HakenfeldeSiemensstadt on the map of Spandau
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Coordinates 52 ° 32 '26 "  N , 13 ° 15' 47"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '26 "  N , 13 ° 15' 47"  E
surface 5.661 km²
Residents 12,831 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 2267 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 13629
District number 0503
Administrative district Spandau

Siemensstadt is a district in the east of the Spandau district of Berlin . It was created through the relocation of the Siemens & Halske plants and their subsidiary Siemens-Schuckert (SSW) with the associated modern plant settlements on the Nonnenwiesen.

location

Westend cable works, around 1900

Siemensstadt lies between the Hohenzollern Canal (section of the Berlin-Spandauer Schifffahrtskanal ) in the north, Charlottenburg-North in the east, the Spree in the south and Haselhorst in the west. The Jungfernheideweg running through the ring settlement represents the border to Charlottenburg-Nord . Siemensstadt also includes the Gartenfeld island formed by the Old Berlin-Spandau shipping canal and the Hohenzollern canal, on which other Siemens factories (until 2002 "Kabelwerk Gartenfeld") were built. The defining street is the Nonnendammallee , in the west with business and in the east with the "Siedlung Nonnendamm".

The district is still characterized by extensive industrial and factory facilities and leafy residential areas, but the companies there no longer belong exclusively to Siemens AG .

Historical

Siemensstadt coat of arms
Memorial plaque for Wilhelm von Siemens , founder of Siemensstadt, in Wilhelm-von-Siemens-Park

Siemens' production facilities were scattered around Berlin at the end of the 19th century. The fallow area north of the Spree around Nonnendamm belonging to the city of Spandau was selected as the new location for Siemens . It was located between Nonnenwiesen, Hühner-Werder (since the Spree regulation on their north bank), Rohrbruch and the Jungfernheide and joined the Spandau industrial areas on the terrain of the Haselhorst estate . In 1897, Siemens & Halske AG acquired an area of ​​209,560 m² on the Hühner-Werder, an "almost uninhabited natural landscape made up of forests, meadows, heathland and wetlands with hardly any traffic facilities". The only traffic connections to Spandau and the neighboring Charlottenburg and Berlin were the waterway on the Spree and the land connection via the (at the time) unpaved Nonnendamm.

The area from Haselhorst to the Charlottenburg border was called the "Nonnendamm Colony"; First mentioned in the Berlin address book in 1910. In 1914 “Nonnendamm b. Berlin ”in the urban district of Spandau was named after the factory settlement as“ Siemensstadt ”, which at that time had 7,000 inhabitants and a further 23,000 employees. The first residential buildings were built in the east of Nonnendamm and in their original development they are called "Siedlung Nonnendamm". The industrial and residential area growing from Spandau was initially called "Kolonie Nonnendamm" before the name was given with reference to the Siemens company.

In a representation of the display for the Havelland from August 1, 1913, the then emerging Siemensstadt was shown as follows.

“There behind the Spree there are huge red- brick buildings ; Four and five-story buildings several hundred meters in front and long machine houses stretch out. A canal leads to the works and countless railroad tracks traverse the wide area. This is Siemensstadt. From the scope of the individual nuns Dammer departments following figures may give a picture: There are about busy:
• in Wernerwerk 7000 people
• in Kleinbauwerk 3500,
• in Elektromotorenwerk 3000,
• in Dynamowerk 2300,
• the block factory 800,
• in the car factory 550,
• in the iron foundry 300,
• in the brass foundry 200,
• in the research institute for electric railways 200,
• in the Gartenfeld cable works (half an hour from Nonnendamm) 3000.
These are certainly huge numbers that speak even for industrial conditions in Greater Berlin . In autumn, the Spandauer Nonnendamm will have another huge addition. The new central administration building will then be occupied, and again 3000 more people will flow to the Nonnendamm [...] The Wernerwerk is also continuously expanding, all Siemens operations in Charlottenburg are to be gradually relocated to the Spandauer Nonnendamm [...] Extensive terrain is available to the Siemens company for buildings still available. "

Current

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traffic

The electric tram Spandau – Nonnendamm was set up on the new Nonnendamm to connect businesses and residential buildings to Spandau . A further connection of this colony Nonnendamm to the local public transport existed from 1905 via the station Fürstenbrunn on the Hamburger Bahn, but this was removed from the factory halls. Siemens built the Märkischer Steg as a connection from the Fürstenbrunn train station across the Spree at his own expense . In later years, Siemens financed a railway bridge over the Spree to directly connect the area north of the Spree, over which the S-Bahn followed from Jungfernheide to Gartenfeld . The Haselhorst military railway was used for freight traffic and the Siemens freight railway was built with partial guidance on the median of Nonnendamm (from 1914: Nonnendammallee).

The district is on the line U7 of Berlin's subway to the Berlin city center and the old town of Spandau connected. Until the Reichsbahn strike in 1980, Siemensstadt was connected to the S-Bahn network via the Siemensbahn . The bus lines 123 and 139 touch the district and provide direct connections to Berlin main station and the central bus station .

Residential architecture

In addition to individual buildings from around 1900, settlement buildings were built in Siemensstadt in several stages, including significant examples of new building and large-scale housing developments .

The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO , on 7 July 2008, the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates included in the list of world cultural heritage. Six listed estates, including the large Siemensstadt estate , represent a new type of social housing from the classical modern era and exerted a considerable influence on the development of architecture and urban planning in the period that followed.

  • Industrial architecture in Siemensstadt

  • Siemens headquarters building in Nonnendammallee

  • Siemens tower

  • Wernerwerk

  • Wernerwerk II

  • Wernerwerk XV

  • Siemens memorial

  • Siemens research laboratory

  • Reuter thermal power station

  • Metallwerk (formerly Kabelwerk) Gartenfeld

  • Werkring

See also

literature

  • Dorothea Zöbl: Siemens in Berlin. Walks through the history of electrification. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86650-945-0 .
  • Arne Hengsbach: From the history of the districts of Siemensstadt and Haselhorst. In: Spandauer Heimathefte , No. 1. Buchhandlung am Markt, Berlin 1954.
  • Arne Hengsbach: Siemensstadt in the green. Between Spree and Jungfernheide 1899–1974. Lezinsky, Berlin 1974.
  • Wolfgang Ribbe , Wolfgang Schächen : The Siemensstadt. History and architecture of an industrial site. Wilhelm Ernst & Son, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-433-01023-4 .

Web links

Commons : Berlin-Siemensstadt  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First factory on the site of what would later become Siemensstadt
  2. ↑ Representation on the Wernerwerk high-rise, combined from the coats of arms of the Charlottenburg district , the Spandau district and the von Siemens family
  3. ^ Alfred Mende (Geograph.-Lithograph. Institute): Large traffic plan Berlin and its suburbs (city map 1907) , accessed May 1, 2015.
  4. ^ History of Berlin: Siemensstadt , accessed May 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ faz.net, October 30, 2018.
  6. ↑ On October 1, 1908, Siemens began operating trams on the Breite Strasse / Havelstrasse-Nonnendamm / Reisstrasse route. For this purpose, the independent company "Elektro Straßenbahn Spandau - Nonnendamm GmbH" was formed on July 1, 1908.
  7. ↑ The Siemens architect - Hans Hertlein, a creator of lasting values. Siemens Historical Institute, accessed June 14, 2019 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ A district of Nonnendamm in the city of Charlottenburg was created west of the Spandau district for the settlement of Siemens workers. “As early as 1899, Siemens had been considering a 'residential colony' for its employees at the new location, but it had failed due to resistance from Charlottenburg and Spandau (Charlottenburg feared the 'urban sprawl' of its posh residential area Westend and Spandau follow-up costs); In mid-1904, Spandau then issued the settlement permit. The Märkische Bodengesellschaft operating on behalf of Siemens developed the area made available by the company and began building the first apartment blocks between Ohmstrasse, Hefnersteig and Reisstrasse with independent architects and master builders in the autumn of 1904. "( Karl-H. Bienek: Die Siemensstadt ) , accessed May 1, 2015, from diegeschichteberlins.de
  2. ↑ Nonnendamm Colony . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910. "Colony Nonnendamm (Stadtkreis Spandau) Inhabitants 1325", accessed May 1, 2015
  3. ↑ On March 16, 2008, Siemens opened a freight railway in Siemensstadt, Nonnendammallee, with a route length of 20 kilometers, which was connected to the freight railway Spandau - Insel Eiswerder .